Backward

So, all that was here is gone now.

I did it. I have reasons, most of which have to do with not giving away work that I hope someday to publish.

Also, my work is forthcoming from the following places in the next four months:

"Gone," a short story in the Arkansas Review

"Some Things I Know," a short story in 34th Parallel

"I Can't Answer," a creative nonfiction piece, in Norton's "Best Creative Nonfiction" Anthology, volume Three

"A Perfect Test," nonfiction in The Oxford-American

"For A Day," creative nonfiction in Guernica


Below is something I don't think I'll ever publish-- a list of the words my friend Heather and I use when we talk about writing:

Cost

How expensive?

Flinch!

Give something away

Show, don’t tell

What is the perfect thing?

Need

All first person narrators are liars

What you don’t want to admit

It’s about you means it’s about me

‘judgment begins with vision’

what is shown reveals what’s actually at stake

“Absolute accuracy of expression is the sole morality of writing”

Abstraction is a failure to accurately indicate

A metaphor cuts below

Misunderstanding indicates

Recognition indicates

An action or the concrete indicates

Inflection indicates

“Form is necessity in a work of art”

Objective correlative means the form is perfect

Negative capability

We are revealed by what we cannot bring ourselves to do

Presence indicates absence

Absence indicates loss

Everything is about loss

Immanence: in absence, imminence